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August 08, 2006
CFL Pick 'Em, Week 9: Fear! Intrigue! Suspense! Single points awarded for preventing a kick return from leaving the endzone! All this and more, inside!
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 03:02 PM - 16 comments
My time on top will be very short. While I will make this weeks picks they will likely be my last. Unless I can get internet access at the hospital I have to spend the next couple of months in. I have hopes, just didnt want yall to think I was ignoring the games. B.C by 18 Edmonton by 6 Hamilton by3 Calgary by 21 Have fun and good luck to you all.
posted by Folkways at 05:51 PM on August 08, 2006
BC by 24 Saskatchewan/Edmonton - Tie Toronto by 10 Calgary by 7 Good luck Folkways. Hope it goes well.
posted by apoch at 07:28 PM on August 08, 2006
You heard it here first, folks! Yes, that's right ... this is the week I make a run at the top of the charts! The dry spell can't last forever! Lions by 10 Eskimos by 8 TiCats by 3 Alouettes by 11 Yep, that's the way it's gonna be!
posted by Spitztengle at 12:43 AM on August 09, 2006
This is a tough week - Hamilton coming off a huge win, Calgary has their mojo going, but against the super-strong Als? Toronto is beat up and who knows which Edmonton or Saskatchewan team is going to show up? So with that in mind.... B.C. by 8 Edmonton by 4 Hamilton by 8 Montreal by 6 (never bet against a streak)
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 08:01 AM on August 09, 2006
BC by 6 Sassy by 3 Hammy by 7 Cal by 1
posted by The_Black_Hand at 05:38 AM on August 10, 2006
My slide down the table continues... BC by 9 Edmonton by 3 Hamilton by 5 Montreal by 13 (Does anyone remember Mark Harris?)
posted by owlhouse at 05:41 AM on August 10, 2006
I'm still holding out hope that I'll nail all four spreads and take the lead. (It could happen, y'know.) Also, maybe monkeys may fly out of my butt. Winnipeg by 4 Saskatchewan by 11 Hamilton by 10 Montreal by 8
posted by chicobangs at 02:48 PM on August 10, 2006
Sorry to see you go, Folkways—hopefully the connectivity at the hospital will be better than you expect. Best of luck with everything. B.C. by 12 Edmonton by 1 Toronto by 3 Calgary by 6
posted by DrJohnEvans at 03:17 PM on August 10, 2006
B.C. by 20 Edmonton by 13 Hamilton by 8 Montreal by 14
posted by gspm at 03:47 PM on August 10, 2006
B.C. @ Winnipeg (too late, dagnabbit) Edmonton by 3 Hamilton by 21 Montreal by 9 I know the Devils are going to win, so why am I so upset they are down to the Rangers 2-1 going into the 3rd?
posted by MrFrisby at 08:25 PM on August 10, 2006
So I'm sitting here, in garbage time, one Winnipeg TD away from nailing the spread, and the Lions defence seems to have lost all interest in the game, and things look pretty good for me until Mike Quinn fades back to pass and then watches as the ball is gently removed from his throwing hand by a defensive back and returned to the other end zone.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:13 AM on August 11, 2006
I knew picking the Sas/Edm tie was a bad idea. But how awesome would it have been if it was right? Of course, DrJohn would have gotten all the credit, as he gave me the idea, but still!
posted by apoch at 08:23 AM on August 12, 2006
Well, I'm pretty sure that you do receive the distinction of being the first person in the history of the SpoFi CFL Pick 'Em to pick a tie. It's also worth noting that there have been no ties in the CFL since the Pick 'Em started: last tie I recall was a Toronto-Hamilton game in 2004. We've never really discussed how ties should be handled. Since the algorithm would produce a Margin of Error of 0 to 0, the default specifications say that you get 3 points for picking a tie, and 0 points otherwise. If we wanted to make ties more interesting, we could define a tie's Margin of Error to be 0 to 1, and award a single point to anybody who picked a point spread of 1. This would make tie games slightly more relevant to our results, since—and I mean no offence to our respective punditry skills when I say this, apoch—the odds of somebody picking a tie correctly are practically not worth considering. Of course, given the rarity of ties themselves, perhaps this whole discussion is not worth considering. But it's been something I've been wondering about for a while. I need a real job again.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 02:33 PM on August 12, 2006
Since ties are so rare, maybe it is right to award 3 points for picking it correctly and no point spread. And as far as punditry skills go, my deserve no respect, so no offense taken.
posted by apoch at 07:05 PM on August 12, 2006
Game of the week lives up to its billing, as Sandro DeAngelis ties and breaks his season record long with the game-tying and game-winning field goals, respectively. Ridiculous!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:01 AM on August 13, 2006
Back in the CF, back in the CFL. Montreal doesn't even bother to toy with Toronto's third-stringers. Winnipeg continues to be befuddled by the Tiger-Cats' vicious... well, something about the Tiger-Cats, anyway. B.C. and Calgary get the job done at home, reasserting their dominant positions in the West, for this week anyway.